NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A pitting nf the Assessment Court will be he hi .it i iticiniiiß.i mi Monday. when the claim* <>i 19 iat* pavers t<> have the valuations reduced will to heard. The hearing of the carpenters' dispute, in which .in award on the lines of the Dunedin agreement is a»*ked for. was begun in the Aibitration Court at Wellington ester duy.

Tho membership of the Auckland Seamen and Firemen's Union is now about 320. It comprises men employed on vessels trading out or Auckland and Onehunga. and the union has a three years' agreement from January 1, giving better conditions than obtained prior to the strike of la.st year.

Petitions in bankruptcy have Wen tiled by Robert Whitelaw, general storekeeper, of Kanio, and Frederick Adamsoo, board-ingiiouse-kecper, of Hamilton. \\ illiam .James Renner, farmer, of Frankton Junction. has been adjudged a bankrupt. In the caeog <>f Adamson and Renner, the ''•:st meetings of creditors will bo held at Hamilton on March 12.

At the Auckland police barracks last evening, Constable H. C. Borland, who has just resigned from the Auckland Police Force, in order to go on the land in Central Otago, was presented with a suit, case, suitably inscribed, and a silver-mounted umbrella by his comrade? prior to his departure for the Smith. For the past eight months Mr. Borland had been attached to the water police.

The following additional subscriptions have been made to the fund to provide a motor ambulance for the Auckland Hospital :Winstone, Ltd., £10; Loyal United Brothers' I,odge (1.0.0. F., National Order), £5 ss; Miss P. M. Nuttall, £5; Mr. ,T. (i Rutherford, £5; Dr. H. W. Cleary, £2 2s; Mr. Thomas English £2 2a; Dr. C. E. Maguii-e. £1 Is; Mr. John Auld (Parnell), £1 Is; M. C., 10s 6d ; and Mr. W. E. Dive, 10s. The fund now stands at £73 9s 6d.